Ceratophyllum floridanum Fassett (1953:29)
Florida hornwort
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Invalid (synonym of C. [muricatum] australe) (Lowder, 1978; Humphreys et al., 2019:SD1)
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of C. australe or C. muricatum) (Lowder, 1978; Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last record: 8 November 1950 (Lowden, 1978) or later
The species was considered extinct by (Stuckey & Bartolotta, 1977; fide Niering, 1988), but as a synonym of C. muricatum (Lowder, 1978) or C. australe (Humphreys et al., 2019) by later authors.
Distribution
Big Pine Key, Monroe County, Florida, USA (Fassett, 1953)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Fassett, N. C. (1953). North American Ceratophyllum. Com. Inst. Trop. Invest. Cient. 2: 25-45.
Other references:
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Lowden, Richard M. (1978). Studies on the submerged genus Ceratophyllum L. in the Neotropics. Aquatic Botany 4: 127-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3770(78)90013-Xhttps://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3770(78)90013-X
Niering, William A. (1988). Endangered, threatened and rare wetland plants and animals of the continental United States, pp. 227-238. In: Hook, D. D., McKee, W. H., Smith, H. K., Gregory, J., Burrell, V. G., DeVoe, M. R., Sojka, R. E., Gilbert, S., Banks, R., Stolzy, L. H., Brooks, C., Matthews, T. D. and Niering, William A. (eds.). The Ecology and Management of Wetlands: Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands. London & Sydney: Croom Helm / Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. [automatic download]
Stuckey, Ronald L. and Bartolotta, R. J. (1977). Appendix G: Extinct, endangered, and threatened aquatic and wetland herbaceous flowering plants in the United States grouped according to major habitat types. In: Kusler, J. A. Wetland Protection: A Guidebook for Local Governments. Washington, DC: The Environmental Law Institute.